On Heaven As It Is On Earth

Slide Projector, 88 slides, microphones, analogue delay unit, amplifier, speakers


Experimental data

Some of the IFFE teams notes rescued from the site pertaining to experiments in magnets, lifters, infrasound and plasma.

We are artists attempting to delve into the mysterious world of science. Our peer-to-peer review procedures may be inadequate. Our resources are limited. We have to attack things laterally and rely on help from willing engineers and scientists as well as a stock of human guinea pigs .

Current theory and practice that may lead to the making of an invisible force field that we are experimenting with, looking at, or just in awe of are summed up within the crossover areas of ion-related experiments, sound research, plasma research and general anti-gravity theory, which, if our hunch is correct, and, as well as controlling up -down we can control things left – right, may lead us to the path of least (or most) resistance.


Invisible Force Fields Vs The Hollywood Monster

British Science Fiction; Invisible Force Fields Vs The Hollywood Monster.

‘Filmed science fiction generally comes in two flavours: British, which has a unique and distinctive character, and everything else. British SF relies heavily on mood, atmosphere and tension, owing as much to Orson Welles as to H.G. Wells. The emphasis is not on startling visuals but on startling concepts. A good British science fiction film could almost take place entirely in a drawing room (and bad ones sometimes do).’

Mark Wilson, scifi.com

I found this quote while trawling the web looking for any information on British Science Fiction Films, specifically those of a very English pastoral character made in the 1960s.


Hard wired for religion?

hard-wired god

Is there a propensity to have religious/mystical experience because our brains are hard-wired through some evolutionary mechanism – essentially is there a survival-use for this –or is there an outside (or inside) connection with a ‘god’ occurring?

More than half the population have reported to have had some type of experience resulting from prayer, meditation, sacred dance or as Bob Holmes, in an article called ‘In Search of God’ for the New Scientist (21st April 2001) , terms it – ‘ by being in a sublime situation, in a church, by the sea, in the mountains or even listening to music.’


Results versus reason

The labels ”’science’, ‘pseudoscience’ and ‘fringe sciences’ are almost interchangeable when standing outside the perspective of the here and now. Much pseudoscience has become fact, much hard science has been relegated to the hatstand file. And some stay in-between. There is also the very interesting area of practical science with legitimate uses and results, which has been mis-diagnosed – the reasons for the actual evidence misinterpreted by those that discovered them, and as such have been disregarded by peers until someone else comes along and rediscovers them.

Imagined

Imagined Force Fields come in all shapes and sizes, and are, in fact generally (and puzzlingly) visible unless you are looking at the cheap walking in the wind type gags of Sapphire and Steel and, of course, the Village of the Damned.

Case Studies

There are a few different theories as to how to go about making an invisible force field. Some observers have come across them as naturally occurring phenomena, others through the by-product of industrial processes, as well as the many people who have imagined them into existence. There are several versions of how / why they might exist and some serious differences of opinion between the scientific communities about why they occur. We are looking at a few different technologies and phenomena in order to construct ours using related ideas. Arts funding being what it is, we have to enter this sideways, usually with a bit of string and a flashlight so that we don’t get lost on the way.


Bose-Einstein, can they help?

BOSE-EINSTEIN

In the 1980s, Ning-Li – a world renowned scientist predicted that if a time-varying magnetic field were applied to superconductor ions trapped in a lattice structure, the ions would absorb enormous amounts of energy. Confined in the lattice, the ions would begin to rapidly spin, causing each to create a minuscule gravitational field.

It wouldn’t actually be an anti-gravity machine’ it would, however, be exerting an attractive or repulsive force on all matter and would therefore be pretty close to an impossible machine.

Dr Ning Li, working in UAH's Centre for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research has recently been working at UAH on an ‘artificial’ gravitational field made inside a container made of superconducting material.


Lifters: Ions & some

LIFTERS – IONS and SOME

Controlling ion direction and charge is one way of beginning to create a force field. One such experiment that can be done relatively cheaply is to make a ‘Lifter’ - essentially cast as anti-gravity machines; a whole subculture has spawned from people making these devices. Here, different areas of the scientific community are battling it out between how and why, although all are interested in the actual verifiable and well-documented results of these experiments.

The concept is old - Thomas Townsend Brown, an electrogravitics inventor from the early 20th century who needless to say died penniless in 1985 despite having invented the popular domestic air ioniser contributed much of the early research into the field.